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I've learned a lot from managing school networks for public schools. Thousands of users runnung on either re-purposed or gifted hardware from 8+ years ago.

In 2013 I was running a school with 500 students and 70 teachers on a 8GB RAM HP Server that was built in 2005 and had no problems other than disk speeds for network transfers.

The same setup in the cloud would have been much more expensive but then again I had/have access to unlimited Microsoft product licenses because of the MS-ACH agreement so take that with a grain of salt. They even give every public school in the country their own unlimited KMS host key.